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Die Werkstatt des Dichters. Imaginationsräume literarischer Produktion
(2017)
The "poet’s workshop" is a central imaginary space of literature. What do we imagine when we think about the workspaces of major writers? Does it make sense to speak about the fantasia of the archive, analogous to how ...
Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine. Jewish Statehood and the History of the Middle East Conflict
(2016)
After half a century of occupation and tremendous costs of the conflict, Israel is still struggling with the idea of a Palestinian state in what is often perceived as the Biblical Eretz Israel. Mapping Zionism, enemy images, ...
The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia
(2014)
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of ...
Users' Needs Report on Play for Children with Disabilities. Parents' and children's views
(2017)
The needs of children and parents about play when the child has a disability are explored by mean on surveys to disability associations and families were collected during 2016 in 30 countries by members of the EU COST LUDI ...
Verborgen, unsichtbar, unlesbar – zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz
(2014)
From the perspective of early modernity, the presence of writing is linked to its visibility and legibility. This may be a questionable assumption, and it was especially problematic for writers in the premodern era, for ...
Der Verlust der Eindeutigkeit. Zur Krise päpstlicher Autorität im Kampf um die Cathedra Petri
(2017)
The struggle of the Antipopes multiplied the structures of the medieval church from the top down. This study focuses on this temporary blurring of the papal hierarchy and examines the mechanisms of duplication, assertions, ...
Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls. Expressivität, heitere Affekte und die Screwball Comedy
(2020)
What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. ...
Wahre und falsche Heiligkeit. Mystik, Macht und Geschlechterrollen im Katholizismus des 19. Jahrhunderts
(2013)
The charges brought in an Inquisition case that revealed scandalous conditions in the Roman Catholic cloister of Sant Ambrogio between 1859 and 1862 included pretense of holiness and attempted murder. Possible motivations ...
We Are Not Amused. Failed Humor in Interaction
(2015)
Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a framework for classifying ...
We Were All in Adam. The Unity of Mankind in Adam in the Teaching of the Church Fathers
(2018)
Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation.The Church Fathers before ...
Die Vertriebenenpolitik der SED 1949 bis 1990
(2009)
1950 war jeder vierte, 1961 jeder fünfte DDR-Bürger ein Vertriebener, und Ende der 1980er Jahre lebten noch 3,7 Millionen sogenannte Umsiedler mit ihren nachgeborenen Kindern in der DDR, wo ihr Schicksal weitgehend tabuisiert ...
Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur
(2020)
„Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur präsentiert das prüfungsrelevante Verwaltungsrecht erstmals Open Access und an der Prüfungsrealität der Studierenden ausgerichtet. Aus der verwaltungsprozessualen Perspektive verwaltungsrechtlicher ...
The Writing System of Scribe Zhou. Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE)
(2016)
This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and ...
Writing Matters. Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(2017)
This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference ...
Writing the Reader. Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel
(2016)
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural ...
Terrorismus und Freiheitskampf. Gewalt, Propaganda und politische Strategie im Irischen Bürgerkrieg 1922/23
(2003)
Anders als die bisher überwiegend an militärischen Fakten interessierte Forschung verfolgt Nikolaus Braun einen primär legitimatorischen Konflikt, einen politischen Glaubenskrieg, in dem die symbolische Ebene genauso ...
Terrorismusbekämpfung in Westeuropa. Demokratie und Sicherheit in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
(2015)
Researchers in contemporary history have only recently turned their attention to government activities to combat ´old` terrorism and its socio-cultural implications. This compendium takes a much-needed next step by comparing ...
Terrorizing Images. Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
(2020)
This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways ...
Unternehmer - Fakten und Fiktionen. Historisch-biografische Studien
(2014)
The essays in this volume examine successful entrepreneurs from different industries and time periods. They show that at least in terms of Schumpeter`s model, entrepreneurship must be regarded as an individual quality, for ...
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World. New Discoveries and Methodologies
(2021)
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them ...
Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern
(2017)
'Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern' is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Comsa, an archaeologist whose work created the foundation of the Northern Balkan prehistory and was essential for the contemporary view of ...
Why Do We Do What We Do? Motivation in History and the Social Sciences
(2014)
Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it – philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, ...
Why Be Moral?
(2015)
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why ...
Verfeinertes Sehen. Optik und Farbe im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert
(2008)
In welcher Weise und in welchem Maß haben die Ergebnisse des Newtonschen Experiments der Farbbrechung Einfluss auf die Bildende Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts genommen? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum der Beiträge, ...
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion. Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen
(2021)
Die sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch ausgerichteten Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbandes zu Ehren von Susanne Günthner befassen sich mit unterschiedlichen Verfestigungen auf der Interaktionsebene. Diese reichen von ...
Vor dem dritten Staatsbankrott? Der deutsche Schuldenstaat in historischer und internationaler Perspektive
(2012)
Mit der Schuldenkrise in der Euro-Zone dämmert die Erkenntnis, dass nicht nur Staaten der Dritten Welt pleite gehen können. Es wird sogar die Frage laut: Ist auch die Bundesrepublik auf dem Weg in den Staatsbankrott, der ...
Was bedeutet Ordnung? Was ordnet Bedeutung? Zu bedeutungskonstituierenden Ordnungsleistungen in Geschriebenem
(2015)
What does order mean - what orders meaning? These are at once elementary and complex questions for the theoretical and praxeological self-definition of the textual and visual sciences. The collected essays in this volume ...
Willy Brandt und Frankreich
(2005)